Comments on: 20 Must Do’s Before You Reach Your First Year As a Blogger!

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 15:59:52 +0000

Thanks George – I had a little RSS button tucked away, but I never thought of giving a textual suggestion

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By: mjda

mjda — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:24:30 +0000

These are some excellent tips. I’ve been trying to read quite a bit lately on how to be successful in blogging, and web development in general, and this is one of the top articles I’ve read. Definitely going to get bookmarked! Keep up the good work!

By: phlizzow

phlizzow — Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:27:38 +0000

Next February my blog will celebrate it’s first ever birthday, with about five months to go, i’m still far from the 300UV a day, well to be honest, i don’t think i would reach that number for some reason, but still i will not give up. Anyway, this post had certainly help me to set my target clearly. Great post! keep it up!

By: George C

George C — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 16:08:06 +0000

Hi Ben! Welcome to The Lounge, and Thanks for your comment. I know, sometimes it’s very diffucult to understand why your visitors are not subscribing, there are many factors, one of the main ones is that the subscription options might not be available, take a look a t my posts, I’ve added “If you enjoyed this post you might want to subscribe to our RSS Feed!” This has certainly increased my number of subscribers, also check the glossy RSS button I have that also works fine ,) Play a little bit with your blog.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 08:22:23 +0000

The thing I have most trouble in is converting visitors (no problem with visitor numbers) to subscribers.

Mind you, I have both my feedburner and raw XML available, and maybe people just use the raw XML feed instead, so that I get no stats.

I should just write my own system for it

But do you have any good tips on the visitor > feed subscriber part of things?
Cheers,
Ben

By: George C

George C — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 16:23:08 +0000

Thanks Josh! Thanks to you too Maria!

By: Maria Palma

Maria Palma — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 08:48:27 +0000

I would add getting your own domain to the list! It looks more professional when you have your own domain.

By: Josh Mullineaux

Josh Mullineaux — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 07:32:38 +0000

Great list there! John Chow and Pro Blogger are must reads. I don’t necessarily think that putting adwords/adsense are necessities on your primary blog. I guess it depends on what you are going for. Why not create some other sites on the side to try the adwords/adsense on? Sweet post, get ‘em talkin!

By: George C

George C — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 19:05:02 +0000

Thanks for the comments!

Santosh : : I’m glad that you already know what to do, and that you have a plan and of course a lot of dreams, that’s always a good thing. Good luck to you too Santosh.

Prasanga : : Thanks! You’re right, there is always a next year!